Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema 2013

Admission

Three Film Package

Film as propaganda tool. Filmmaking as metabolic process. Throw in a triple dose of Transylvanian flavor from a popular series of Red Westerns; the complete works of one of The New York Times’ 20 Directors to Watch, Corneliu Porumboiu; Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear award winner Child’s Pose; and the World Premiere of Closer to the Moon; and you’ll have the 8th edition of Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema.

In This Series

The true but incredible story of a group of Jewish top members of the nomenklatura who, in 1959, robbed Romania's National Bank and made it look like a film shoot. Vera Farmiga and Game of Thrones' Harry Lloyd star.

Luminița Gheorghiu (The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu) is pitch perfect in this Golden Bear winner that deals with the mother of all moral dilemmas: a parent willing to do everything in order to save her son, who killed a child in a car accident.

There's a tender and humorous touch to this light collection of tales about people who eat the animals that they love and animals that love people unconditionally, masterfully directed in impeccable wide one-shots.

This first installment in the so-called Transylvanians Trilogy is a fun red western shot in Romania that tells the story of two Transylvanians who go to the mining town of Cedar City, Utah to persuade their brother to come back home.

The second film in the trilogy continues the American adventures of the three Transylvanian brothers, throwing in some more gunfights, bar brawls, train ambushes, bandits, Indians and a flamboyant cabaret actress.

The last part in the trilogy follows the three brothers on their way home, but having to settle in Swanton City where the eldest of them finds oil while digging for water. Romanian propaganda films were never that inventive.

Preceding the Czechoslovak New Wave, the second film by Slovak director Stefan Uher did much to push the boundaries of acceptable Socialist Realism in an episodic narrative about a casual teenage couple at the end of the school year.

The Chekhov-like Shadow of a Cloud by Radu Jude leads this eclectic bunch of seven shorts that also includes the Romanian answer to Kill Bill, 12 Minutes, and the hypnotic video-art of Matriarch, featuring a striking Luminița Gheorghiu.

Three early shorts—Liviu’s Dream (2004, 39m), A Trip to the City (2003, 19m), Gone with the Wine (2002, 9m)—by the director of Police, Adjective and NYFF51 favorite When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism.

Dominique Nasta, Professor of Film Studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, will be present for the launch of her recently published book, Contemporary Romanian Cinema: The History of an Unexpected Miracle (Wallflower Press, 2013).

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